Re: [Mono-dev] Building mono on Windows issues.

2014-10-17 Thread Alex J Lennon
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for taking the time to provide the background. I understand/agree that facilitating development on Windows is a complex task. I've seen some of the emails over time and can well imagine it's complex and invasive to the existing build system. People start the work, but I''ve

Re: [Mono-dev] Building mono on Windows issues.

2014-10-17 Thread Mladen Mihajlovic
Hi Guys, I took it upon myself to try and get a build up and running on Appveyor yesterday. Please have a look at https://github.com/mika76/mono and https://ci.appveyor.com/project/mmihajlovic/mono - so far the only thing I've edited is the appveyor.yml file and the actual a[[veyor settings. At

Re: [Mono-dev] Building mono on Windows issues.

2014-10-17 Thread Alex J Lennon
Hi Mladen, Sounds good to me. I've not encountered Appveyor before but it looks good. How do you get the Cygwin dependencies in there? Can it be assumed that what's happening in the Appveyor build is basically the same as on a standard Windows box? Cheers, Alex On 17/10/2014 08:53, Mladen

Re: [Mono-dev] Building mono on Windows issues.

2014-10-17 Thread Mladen Mihajlovic
Hey Alex There's a lot that you can do through their yml settings file. Download and setup pretty much anything. Have a look in the root if the repo: appveyor.yml. On 17 Oct 2014 8:59 AM, Alex J Lennon ajlen...@dynamicdevices.co.uk wrote: Hi Mladen, Sounds good to me. I've not encountered

Re: [Mono-dev] Pull Requests

2014-10-17 Thread Andres G. Aragoneses
On 17/10/14 03:52, David Nelson wrote: ...my observations have not convinced me that such contributions would be an effective use of my time. Did your observations include only unmerged pull requests, or did you also happen to check how many of them get merged? The latter is important too.

Re: [Mono-dev] Windows builds

2014-10-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (mono)
From: mono-devel-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-devel-list- boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Crotaz Who's with me? FWIW, the state of mono for windows is really really bad, but it's not great for rhel or ubuntu either. I agree *enormously* that there's a big

Re: [Mono-dev] Pull Requests

2014-10-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (mono)
From: mono-devel-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-devel-list- boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Martin Thwaites Just to give my2cents on this. I would just like to know that things will get looked at approved at some point.  Getting reviewed is one thing. (Difficult

Re: [Mono-dev] Pull Requests

2014-10-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (mono)
From: mono-devel-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-devel-list- boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey (mono) Getting reviewed is one thing. (Difficult enough.) Getting approved is a completely different thing - even more perilous. ... etc etc yadda yadda ...

Re: [Mono-dev] Building mono on Windows issues.

2014-10-17 Thread Alex J Lennon
On 17/10/2014 16:07, Alex J Lennon wrote: On 17/10/2014 09:09, Mladen Mihajlovic wrote: Hey Alex There's a lot that you can do through their yml settings file. Download and setup pretty much anything. Have a look in the root if the repo: appveyor.yml. Hi Mladen, I like the look of

[Mono-dev] gc

2014-10-17 Thread Neale Ferguson
Hi, We were helping someone who was having performance problems with a large streaming application that they run under .NET and mono. On .NET the app takes around 7-10 seconds to do its stuff. On Mono on Linux it was taking 47 seconds or so to do the same thing. The mono system had 256G RAM and

Re: [Mono-dev] Review of PR1349

2014-10-17 Thread Chris Rogus
Disclaimer: I know nothing about these classes. That said, I firmly support the plan to bring PRs into the mailing list, and would hate to see such a great plan get no love, so I want to say that from looking at these (very small and easily digested) changes, they at least look clean and good.

Re: [Mono-dev] Review of PR1349

2014-10-17 Thread Martin Thwaites
Thanks Chris, The main thing I think will be off benefit with people reviewing is simply getting that second pair of eyes to sanity check it. Looking for basic coding standards stuff, anything obvious. Other things like advice on separating things out etc. On 17 October 2014 20:46, Chris Rogus

[Mono-dev] Unit Testing process: Community Contributions

2014-10-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (mono)
This might have gotten buried in the other thread. So here's a new thread to bring it up to attention. Miguel, this question is probably for you. (And by the way, thank you for everything, and especially thank you for participating here.) The bottleneck that's preventing much community

Re: [Mono-dev] Unit Testing process: Community Contributions

2014-10-17 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, The build bot does some of this work when you submit a pull request. It does not cover all platforms, nor all configurations, but it is a good first step. But this is not a problem. Not every patch affects all systems, and most of the code is cross platform, so testing on one is

[Mono-dev] Closing Pulls

2014-10-17 Thread Martin Thwaites
Hi All, This is probably more a question for Miguel, but I thought I'd make it public. I'm looking through the list of PR's (103 at the moment) and I thought it best to go from the end. However, it seems like most of these are either done by someone who no longer has interest in contributing,

Re: [Mono-dev] Closing Pulls

2014-10-17 Thread Miguel de Icaza
For this to work, I'm thinking we (I'm happy to dedicate some time to this) could just ping the mailing list to ask you close them Miguel? I'm thinking it's an easy and quick thing to do, so we can expect a fairly quick turnaround? I dont think they hurt to keep them open. Do not want to

Re: [Mono-dev] Closing Pulls

2014-10-17 Thread Martin Thwaites
Thanks Miguel, I appreciate why you would want to keep them, however, do you not feel the list is currently unmanageable? Maybe we could add labels (the ones in GitHub, not used them before but it looks like it could work) to the older ones like inactive so we know which ones are worth reviewing

Re: [Mono-dev] Closing Pulls

2014-10-17 Thread Brandon Perry
I would like to add that, on the Metasploit framework, we often have 80+ pull requests open at any given point in time, and labels in Github are *so* useful. https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pulls On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Martin Thwaites monofo...@my2cents.co.uk wrote: